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Early day motion 551 Snouts in the trough ?????
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UNDER-OCCUPANCY PENALTY AND HON. MEMBERS' ALLOWANCES
- Session: 2013-14
- Date tabled: 09.10.2013
- Primary sponsor: Galloway, George
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That this House notes that under the bedroom tax more than 600,000 social tenants with spare rooms must either move or pay an average of £14 a week penalty; further notes that hon. Members with a spare room in their London homes can claim an additional allowance if a child or children routinely reside with them; further notes that the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority has ruled that they will still be eligible for the additional allowance if the child visits just once a month; condemns the 29 hon. Members who, while backing the bedroom tax, have claimed an additional £64,000 and a further 20 who claimed £37,000; and urges the Government to end this unfair allowance which can only reflect badly with members of the public
Wasting your time putting that on here, most of the posters are so up themselves and worship the tory party and hate the working class
Just want to show how corrupt and self serving some MP's are. 49 members claim enormous amount of public money and yet vote for the bill by finding a way round it for themselves.
http://www.parliament.uk/edm/2013-14/19 heres another EDM I found which ties in with the above subject User
I think it is irrelevant which party they are or if they backed or didn't back the "bedroom tax", if any MP is claiming money for housing larger than 1 bedroom (and frankly why they can't put up with a studio apartment or bedsit I don't know) then they should not be allowed to do so. I have no problem with MPs who live a distance from Westminster being given some financial help to be based in two locations for their job, but it should be a bare minimum not to give them a tax payer funded cushioned lifestyle.
I agree DJ, and Im sure theres an empty office block somewhere that could be converted for MPs into bedsits or studio appartments, and if they refused to move into them, take the allowance away. Austerity should apply to all
Its a bit like our new Police Commissioner who refuses to use the luxury apartment at Heavitree but to use public money to stay somewhere else, I thought he was there to save money, it seems he gets rid of Police Offiicers but takes on more office staff at a cost of £104.000 per year. Does that make any sense? not to me.
A link to a bit more of what our MP's think of us.
After all, we all saw MPs jeering in Parliament, laughing into the camera as victims of the Bedroom Tax gave their devastating testimonies of what life is like under their cuts.
The bedroom tax is both cruel and not for for purpose - and that the taxes paid on victims' income and benefits is used to provide 'spare bedrooms' for these jeering MPs says all we need to know about this system.
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